Also, there’s a wagon train from Arkansas just pulled into Utah, heading for California, maybe some trouble brewing.
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Read the book “The Mountain Meadows Massacre” by Juanita Brooks. It’s very well researched and well written. I once lived in Southern Utah, and visited the site a few times. It’s an eerily foreboding place, knowing what happened there. A little stream flows gurgling past, overgrown with water cress, and a hill nearby from which the Mormons fired down upon the encircled wagons of the encampment for several days until they hatched a plan of trickery. Most of the people in Cedar City and the Virgin River valley have lived there for generations, and you won’t get any information from them. A hundred years or so later a monument was finally erected on the site of the mass burial, but NOT by the people of Cedar City or the Hurricane/Virgin River Valley.
Also, there are a few works by and about John Doyle Lee which are well worth a read. Strange how when I lived there nearly everyone in the little town of Virgin was named Lee.
Possibly related to Robert Lee the sportscaster?
Look out! There's Arthur Lee, Bobby Lee
And General Lighthorse Harry Lee
Willy Lee, Jesse Lee
Franklin:
And Richard H.!
Lee:
That's me!"
